Editing Ramanathan V. Guha

{{Short description|Indian computer scientist}}
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| caption           = Ramanathan V. Guha (2013)
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| workplaces        = [[Google]]<br>[[IBM]]<br>[[Apple Inc.]]<br>[[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]]<br>[[University of California Berkeley]]<br>[[Stanford University]]
| alma_mater        = [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]]<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]]<br>[[Stanford University]]
| thesis_title      = Contexts: A formalization and some applications
| thesis_url        = https://www.proquest.com/docview/304029864
| thesis_year       = 1992
| doctoral_advisor  = [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]]<br>[[Edward Feigenbaum]]<ref name="mathgene"/>
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| known_for         = [[Cyc]]<ref name="cyc">{{cite book |author1=Guha, R. V. |author2=Lenat, Douglas B. |title=Building large knowledge-based systems: representation and inference in the Cyc project |publisher=Addison-Wesley Pub. Co |location=Reading, Mass |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-201-51752-1 }}</ref><br>[[Schema.org]]<br>[[Meta Content Framework]]<br>[[Resource Description Framework]]<br>[[RSS]]<br>[[Datacommons.org]]
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'''Ramanathan V. Guha''' (born 1965){{citation needed|date=July 2013}} is the creator of widely used web standards such as [[RSS]], [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]] and [[Schema.org]]. He is also responsible for products such as [[Google Custom Search]]. He was a co-founder of [[Epinions]] and Alpiri. He worked at Google for nearly two decades, most recently as a Google Fellow, before announcing his departure from the company in August 2024.<ref>{{Cite conference| last1 = Guha | first1 = R. | author-link1 = Ramanathan V. Guha| last2 = McCool | first2 = R. |author-link2 = Robert McCool| last3 = Miller | first3 = E. |author-link3 = Eric J. Miller| doi = 10.1145/775152.775250 | title = Semantic search | work = Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web| conference = [[International World Wide Web Conference|WWW]]'03| pages = 700–709| year = 2003 | isbn = 1-58113-680-3}}</ref><ref name="dblp">{{DBLP|name=Ramanathan V. Guha}}</ref><ref name="acm">{{ACMPortal|id=81100549150}}</ref><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id= 8380044400}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Post by R. Guha on LinkedIn |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/r-guha-59b19412_after-almost-2-decades-i-am-moving-on-from-activity-7225593865825665024-6HHw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=LinkedIn |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Education==
Guha did his schooling from [[Loyola High School (Pune)|Loyola High School]], [[Pune]] and graduated with [[Bachelor of Technology]] in [[Mechanical Engineering]] from the [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]], [[Master of Science]] from [[University of California, Berkeley]] and Ph.D from [[Stanford University]].<ref name="mathgene">{{MathGenealogy|id=61946}}</ref><ref name="cv">{{Cite web| last = Guha| first = R.V.| title = CV| work = Guha.com| access-date = 2015-12-31| url = http://www.guha.com/cv.html}}</ref>

==Career==
Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the [[Cyc]] Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at [[Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation]] in collaboration with [[Douglas Lenat]].<ref name="cyc"/> He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the [[CycL]] [[knowledge representation]] language, the upper ontological layers of the Cyc Knowledge Base and some parts of the original Cyc Natural Language understanding system.<ref name="dblp"/>

Leaving what became [[Cycorp]], Guha founded Q Technology, which created a database schema mapping tool called Babelfish.  In 1994, he moved to work at [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]], reporting to [[Alan Kay]], where he developed the [[Meta Content Framework]] (MCF) format. In 1997 he joined [[Netscape]] where, in collaboration with [[Tim Bray]], he created a new version of MCF that used the [[XML]] language and which became the main technical precursor to W3C's  [[Resource Description Framework]] (RDF) standard.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andreessen |first=Marc |title=Innovators of the Net: R.V. Guha and RDF |work=Netscape |access-date=2014-09-14 |date=1999-01-08 |url=http://wp.netscape.com/columns/techvision/innovators_rg.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205163659/http://wp.netscape.com/columns/techvision/innovators_rg.html |archive-date=February 5, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Baldazo |first=Rex |title=The 1st annual Web Innovator Awards - R. V. Guha: Resource Description Framework (RDF) |work=Builder.com |access-date=2016-02-02 |date=1998-04-15 |url=http://builder.cnet.com/Business/Innovators97/ss10.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991117062212/http://builder.cnet.com/Business/Innovators97/ss10.html |archive-date=November 17, 1999 }}</ref>

Guha also contributed to the "smart browsing" features of Netscape 4.5 and was instrumental in Netscape's acquisition of [[NewHoo]], which Netscape rebranded the Open Directory Project.<ref name="netscape">{{Cite web |url=http://www.skrenta.com/about.html |title=About Rich Skrenta |last=Skrenta |first=Rich |author-link=Rich Skrenta |access-date=April 20, 2014}}</ref> He created the first version of [[RSS]] as part of a move in which the My.Netscape [[Web portal|portal]] was opened to wider participation in March 1999.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Hines| first = Matt| title = Netscape Broadens Portal Content Strategy| work = Newsbytes| date = 1999-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Afzali |first=Cyrus |title=Netscape Launches Publishing Program |work=Internet News |access-date=2015-11-21 |date=1999-03-15 |url=http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3_80051 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030420052050/http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3_80051 |archive-date=April 20, 2003 }}</ref> In 1999 he left Netscape and in May co-founded [[Epinions]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Zaret |first=Elliot |title=The rise and fall of Netscape |work=ZDNet News |access-date=2015-12-31 |date=2000-08-18 |url=http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2458154,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818000524/http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2458154,00.html |archive-date=August 18, 2000 }}</ref> where he worked until 2000.<ref name="cv" />  Guha founded Alpiri in late 2000 which created TAP,<ref name="tap">{{Cite journal | last1 = Guha | first1 = R. |author-link1 = Ramanathan V. Guha| last2 = McCool | first2 = R. |author-link2 = Robert McCool| doi = 10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00225-1 | title = TAP: A Semantic Web platform | journal = [[Comput. Netw.]]| volume = 42 | issue = 5 | pages = 557–577| date = August 2003 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.58.2546 }}</ref> a [[semantic web]] application and [[knowledge base]].  In 2002, he became a researcher at [[IBM Almaden Research Center]].<ref name="cv" />

In 2005 Guha joined [[Google]] and became a Google Fellow. While at Google he has been responsible for [[Google Custom Search]] and a number of enhancements to [[Adwords]]. He is also one of the founders of [[Schema.org]] and [[Datacommons.org]].<ref name="cv" /> After nearly two decades with the company, he announced his departure in August 2024.<ref name=":0" />

==Awards==
On January 26, 2013, Guha  was named as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.<ref>{{cite news|title=IIT-M announces awards for distinguished alumni|url=http://newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/article1438339.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112306/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/article1438339.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=Feb 4, 2013|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=Jan 28, 2013}}</ref>

December 8, 2015 named as a [[List of Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery|ACM Fellow]] [http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/guha_1031819.cfm ''for contributions to structured data representation and specification and their impact on the Web'']
<ref>{{cite news|title=ACM Fellows named for Computing Innovations that are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age|url=http://awards.acm.org/press_releases/fellows-2015a.pdf|access-date=Dec 9, 2015}}</ref>

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